Roosevelt Middle School
International Baccalaureate Magnet
Site Governance Team
January 20, 2009
Present:
Carmen Garcia, Jacqueline Vitzen, Sandra Boe, Arlene Spaniol, Emma Ehrlich, Jennifer Jay, Scott Lockwood, Rafael Ocampo, Fran Donovan, Beverly Rambicure, Stacy North, Cheryl Wlodarski, Allison Brown, Hillary Hager, Christina Schaefer, Dustin Hawkins, Shakerra Davis, Dinah Weiss, Nelson Cortes
The meeting was called to order @ 2:35.
Jennifer Jay motioned to approve 12/9 minutes. Motion approved by Stacy North.
Gear Up-Dinah Weiss, Dustin Hawkins, Shakerra Davis
Goal of grant - provide a counselor/coordiantor to work with staff/parents/students to provide supports & tools to enhance academic achievement, career awareness, college awareness, short & long term goal planning, provide an awareness what needs to happen at middle school to prepare for upper levels of education. Want a minimum of 50 parents to participate - open to entire school community.
Target-target those who are underrepresented going to college & work force
"College Making it Happen," "Parent Institute (P.K.)-9 week program provides certificate where parents participates. Parent education program that helps you navigate through school systems & teaches how to communicate with staff & teachers, focusing on social/emotional needs of teenagers. Receives a certificate of graduation. Partner with AVID-can come work with school sites on college awareness, Cornell note taking, college awareness, etc... Opportunities for scholarships for staff members to go to AVID Institute. Counselors here to assess school needs to see what they can do to best utilize funding. Work directly with a leadership team (SGT) to help assure they meet the needs of teachers/staff/students.
Grant Requirement-each school site responsible for finding a "Match." School acknowledges that they provide a 100% match (can be monies and resources, not necessarily dollar-per-dollar) funding match along with Gear Up. Gear Up charges per hour for events, copies, PAL...anything over and above the typical functions. Pull off from existing resources for funding. Work closely with foundation to assure that monies are spent appropriately, i.e.: textbooks, PD, test prep materials, academic planning, etc.
"City Span" - highly data driven to evaluate the effectiveness of objectives & used for strategic planning for upcoming year. Highly aligned with district SMART goals.
On campus 2008-2009 (6th-7th) and 2009-2010 (7th-8th). Annual goal: Self-esteem, transitioning to middle school / preparing for academic rigor, specifically with algebra readiness, passing to move on, looking at technology, academics, etc...
S. Schafer question - "Have we learned from Preuss School's model? Not specified in grant that we follow that model, but will ask the question.
Students to be pulled for brief 14 question student survey. Data is collected, goals planned, plan strategically, ready for next year.
Student tutoring highly documented and tracked. Students are followed to next year.
Roundtable
Meeting at Maginn household to speak with prospective parents/students who currently attend Grant (4th & 5th grade students). Goal is to "diversify" Roosevelt by bringing in more African American and White students to our school.
Lockwood - Did postcards get mailed out?
Garcia - In process & in process of making a GATE/Seminar specific postcard.. PTO outreach created to recruit students
Jacqui Vitzen - February 10 Valentine Dance, March 16 Pennies for Pasta monies going to Pakistan-whomever collects the most gets free pasta from Olive Garden, "Make Leukemia Disappear," "Kiss 8th Graders Goodbye," Pep-rally to shave Mr. Croom's hair on (date TBD), Raffle tickets for 50 cents, teacher tickets for $1.50. Winning ticket gets to shave his head. Sugar-free lollipops fundraiser $15/bag-$45 profit/bag, student store re-opening soon, Robeks to come and sell juices for profit.
Spaniol - Availability of computers on campus, high interest-low supply, possibly open up Carnegie Lab, but more maintenance. Carmen said we hired a computer tech to format computers for staff/student use. Arlene wants more Alpha Smarts for word processing purposes. We have one cart available now. Connectivity and availiability for parents to connect to RMS electronically.
Wlodarski - regular maintenance of computer carts
Lockwood - UOI training upcoming, benchmarks given this week, student rewards for benchmarks voted on by SSC, possible rewards for CST's (PTO will spearhead). Subcommittee for CST Incentives (student motivation committee). Teacher appreciation committee meeting 1/21-can discuss rewards then.
Jay - 13 new students tested (8 new Seminar / 5 new GATE). GATE conference ASDEG on 1/24-FULL.
Rafael-new 6th grade counselor
Rambicure - Women's in Sports this Saturday. About 20 girls going. Basketball season started. Non-suit in PE has detention. Concerned with certain group of 8th graders who do not get serviced by Gear Up. What can we do to help them? Safe and Civil Schools have representatives coming on campus to observe at-risk 8th grade students focusing on positive reinforcements & cultural capital, while struggling with their apathy & respect. Counseling also sending 8th graders to a ROPES course for tier 3 8th graders.
North - has concerns with placing students properly at the beginning of the year. Possibly meet before school for this reason. Place as a May agenda item. Adding Jamestown Navigator as tier 2 and leaving Read 180 for tier 3.
Cherly Wlodarski - computers
Brown - very low showing for Girls in Science, and also in Art class. Officially an educational partner with the Zoo. Funded by Wells Fargo Grant specific to girls only, Garcia will inquire about the boys. Gear Up will look for possible incentives. Sports are doing great! Next week Tuesday is 6-6 Winter Party at 1:30pm.
Shakerra Davis - February 4 is Gear-Up assemblies for 6th and 7th graders. "College: Making it Happen" (6-8pm) - parent/student incentives for this kick-off, teachers invited, college gear, aligning knowledge of middle school to high school.
Cortes - Constitutional Debate went well. One of the only city schools competing with other private schools, affluent schools, etc. - not always a level playing field. First place team award with Cervantes, Zuniga, Hoffman and Lamphere.
Upcoming Events
1/24 - Magnet Fair from 10-4
1/29 - Open House 9-10:30am and 6-7pm
1/31 - Districtwide Fair at Balboa Park
Bill Maginn has started a weekly e-newsletter. Marsha, Daniza, Ken, Carmen, Santos aggressively recruiting students, while PTO heading up outreach program.
International Baccalaureate Magnet
Site Governance Team
January 20, 2009
Present:
Carmen Garcia, Jacqueline Vitzen, Sandra Boe, Arlene Spaniol, Emma Ehrlich, Jennifer Jay, Scott Lockwood, Rafael Ocampo, Fran Donovan, Beverly Rambicure, Stacy North, Cheryl Wlodarski, Allison Brown, Hillary Hager, Christina Schaefer, Dustin Hawkins, Shakerra Davis, Dinah Weiss, Nelson Cortes
The meeting was called to order @ 2:35.
Jennifer Jay motioned to approve 12/9 minutes. Motion approved by Stacy North.
Gear Up-Dinah Weiss, Dustin Hawkins, Shakerra Davis
Goal of grant - provide a counselor/coordiantor to work with staff/parents/students to provide supports & tools to enhance academic achievement, career awareness, college awareness, short & long term goal planning, provide an awareness what needs to happen at middle school to prepare for upper levels of education. Want a minimum of 50 parents to participate - open to entire school community.
Target-target those who are underrepresented going to college & work force
"College Making it Happen," "Parent Institute (P.K.)-9 week program provides certificate where parents participates. Parent education program that helps you navigate through school systems & teaches how to communicate with staff & teachers, focusing on social/emotional needs of teenagers. Receives a certificate of graduation. Partner with AVID-can come work with school sites on college awareness, Cornell note taking, college awareness, etc... Opportunities for scholarships for staff members to go to AVID Institute. Counselors here to assess school needs to see what they can do to best utilize funding. Work directly with a leadership team (SGT) to help assure they meet the needs of teachers/staff/students.
Grant Requirement-each school site responsible for finding a "Match." School acknowledges that they provide a 100% match (can be monies and resources, not necessarily dollar-per-dollar) funding match along with Gear Up. Gear Up charges per hour for events, copies, PAL...anything over and above the typical functions. Pull off from existing resources for funding. Work closely with foundation to assure that monies are spent appropriately, i.e.: textbooks, PD, test prep materials, academic planning, etc.
"City Span" - highly data driven to evaluate the effectiveness of objectives & used for strategic planning for upcoming year. Highly aligned with district SMART goals.
On campus 2008-2009 (6th-7th) and 2009-2010 (7th-8th). Annual goal: Self-esteem, transitioning to middle school / preparing for academic rigor, specifically with algebra readiness, passing to move on, looking at technology, academics, etc...
S. Schafer question - "Have we learned from Preuss School's model? Not specified in grant that we follow that model, but will ask the question.
Students to be pulled for brief 14 question student survey. Data is collected, goals planned, plan strategically, ready for next year.
Student tutoring highly documented and tracked. Students are followed to next year.
Roundtable
Meeting at Maginn household to speak with prospective parents/students who currently attend Grant (4th & 5th grade students). Goal is to "diversify" Roosevelt by bringing in more African American and White students to our school.
Lockwood - Did postcards get mailed out?
Garcia - In process & in process of making a GATE/Seminar specific postcard.. PTO outreach created to recruit students
Jacqui Vitzen - February 10 Valentine Dance, March 16 Pennies for Pasta monies going to Pakistan-whomever collects the most gets free pasta from Olive Garden, "Make Leukemia Disappear," "Kiss 8th Graders Goodbye," Pep-rally to shave Mr. Croom's hair on (date TBD), Raffle tickets for 50 cents, teacher tickets for $1.50. Winning ticket gets to shave his head. Sugar-free lollipops fundraiser $15/bag-$45 profit/bag, student store re-opening soon, Robeks to come and sell juices for profit.
Spaniol - Availability of computers on campus, high interest-low supply, possibly open up Carnegie Lab, but more maintenance. Carmen said we hired a computer tech to format computers for staff/student use. Arlene wants more Alpha Smarts for word processing purposes. We have one cart available now. Connectivity and availiability for parents to connect to RMS electronically.
Wlodarski - regular maintenance of computer carts
Lockwood - UOI training upcoming, benchmarks given this week, student rewards for benchmarks voted on by SSC, possible rewards for CST's (PTO will spearhead). Subcommittee for CST Incentives (student motivation committee). Teacher appreciation committee meeting 1/21-can discuss rewards then.
Jay - 13 new students tested (8 new Seminar / 5 new GATE). GATE conference ASDEG on 1/24-FULL.
Rafael-new 6th grade counselor
Rambicure - Women's in Sports this Saturday. About 20 girls going. Basketball season started. Non-suit in PE has detention. Concerned with certain group of 8th graders who do not get serviced by Gear Up. What can we do to help them? Safe and Civil Schools have representatives coming on campus to observe at-risk 8th grade students focusing on positive reinforcements & cultural capital, while struggling with their apathy & respect. Counseling also sending 8th graders to a ROPES course for tier 3 8th graders.
North - has concerns with placing students properly at the beginning of the year. Possibly meet before school for this reason. Place as a May agenda item. Adding Jamestown Navigator as tier 2 and leaving Read 180 for tier 3.
Cherly Wlodarski - computers
Brown - very low showing for Girls in Science, and also in Art class. Officially an educational partner with the Zoo. Funded by Wells Fargo Grant specific to girls only, Garcia will inquire about the boys. Gear Up will look for possible incentives. Sports are doing great! Next week Tuesday is 6-6 Winter Party at 1:30pm.
Shakerra Davis - February 4 is Gear-Up assemblies for 6th and 7th graders. "College: Making it Happen" (6-8pm) - parent/student incentives for this kick-off, teachers invited, college gear, aligning knowledge of middle school to high school.
Cortes - Constitutional Debate went well. One of the only city schools competing with other private schools, affluent schools, etc. - not always a level playing field. First place team award with Cervantes, Zuniga, Hoffman and Lamphere.
Upcoming Events
1/24 - Magnet Fair from 10-4
1/29 - Open House 9-10:30am and 6-7pm
1/31 - Districtwide Fair at Balboa Park
Bill Maginn has started a weekly e-newsletter. Marsha, Daniza, Ken, Carmen, Santos aggressively recruiting students, while PTO heading up outreach program.
Meeting ended 3:45pm